helicopter-attack-squadron-HMLA-169-breaks-up-taliban-ambush-mh-spring-2023.jpg Sergeant Samuel Galan of U.S. Marine light helicopter attack squadron HMLA-169 breaks up a Taliban ambush in Helmand province, Afghanistan, using a minigun mounted in a Bell UH-1Y Venom helicopter gunship on Feb. 3, 2013. (Corporal Alejandro Pena (U.S. Marine Corps)) Corporal Alejandro Pena (U.S. Marine Corps)